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Comment is this the usual british media sensationalism ? (Score 1) 313

facebook needs the right to distribute photos in order to let people access them in a news feed. i havent read the instagram terms and conditions but google docs contains a similar right to distribute. however google explicitly say they use this right only to support the functionality of google docs, they dont seek to own your content

Comment need access to the host on which the vm is running (Score 1) 73

if the attacker has sufficient access to the host to study the vm's execution profile then i suspect the attacker can do a lot more than capture that key.. in the uses I would expect people to care about, web services running on a vm on the net, this implies that the attacker already has ssh access to the host machine. so an assumption of this vulnerability is that the host system is completely compromised. in such a case the attacker will have other options to get that key. as a side note, i dont know if it would be a good thing to fix this problem, you pay for perf for web servers so disguising the computation to mitigate such an attack would cost way more than it would achieve

Comment Re:The title makes me weep for science journalism (Score 3, Interesting) 74

dont photons have an energy that is inversely proportional to the wavelength (shorter wavelenths = photons at higher energy).. i'm no particle physicist but something emitted the photon which is the particle by which the xrays and all em propagate.. then photons get released when electrons drop to lower energy levels in their atomic orbits.. so as the matter of the cloud compresesd in the effect of the black hole's gravitational pull, the temperature of the matter incresaes, the energy of the electrons increases correspondingly, the electroncs go to higher orbits around the atom and they drop back to lower orbits by releasing photons. so maybe they can measure the temperature of the atom at the point where the electron was released by looking at the wavelength / other properties of the photon ? wasnt the temperature of the big bang measured via the universal background radiation which is the photons released by the matter in the universe about 300,000 years after the big bang (the point at which temperatures had cooled sufficiently for electrons to get into stable orbits around atoms ?

Comment Re:Analog hole (Score 2) 183

or .. - uninstall mcafee plugin and copy image - use alternate browser which doesnt have plugin - capture url of image and download seperately - .... this may not be the dumbest thing i've ever heard but it's up there. the subsequent step is for facebook to apply drm and content protection to media on facebook. soon after mass migration of users to another social network. lets see what direction that share price keeps going in

Comment be able to deliver and have someone vouch (Score 1) 444

i've mostly gotten interviews because i've been to a fairly well known uni, got a masters qualificaiton and i've worked in top name companies.. that said, there's other ways in -- if a company cant get the people with the 'normal' qualifications then you can get an interview if you can convince someone in the dept you can do the job.. how to convince ? depends what job you want. build up a portfolio of relevant certifications and experience in that area.. so a degree is ideal, if that's not viable, certifications, open source, maintain a network for a local charity organisation, whatever is relevant is good.. people dont want to hire potential, they want to hire someone who has gotten results close to where their current problem or pain is. So you need to talk the talk and have a number of concrete elements that demonstrate you've done it rather than thought about it
Cloud

Submission + - future media experience and connected devices (sonyinsider.com)

dan_in_dublin writes: "President of sony network entertainment Tim Schaaff outlines how Sony is working to create a unified device experience through subscriptions, streaming and the cloud so that people who dont know about files, network or user accounts can still discover content they love and create mash ups"
Science

Submission + - irish science minister endorses intelligent design (freethinker.co.uk)

dan_in_dublin writes: from the article "IN DUBLIN tomorrow a book rubbishing evolution will be launched ââoe by Irelandââs Minister of State for Science, Technology and Enterprise, Conor Lenihan!"

The irish science minister demonstrates his scientific acumen by endorsing an author whose website [http://www.theoriginofspeciousnonsense.com/index-2.html] and book propose arguments such as
"Our Milky Way/Universe is so mathematically precise and orderly that we can predict an eclipse of the moon 176 years in advance to the 16th of July 2186, that's 176 years in advance of today to the very second.. CHANCE? — NO."
"It is sacrificing reason on the alter of treason to accept that the greatest construction of all time.. a human being with a brain is the result of chance, randomness and destructive mutations. It is the irrational three legged chair of hopeless speculation that bears no resemblance whatsoever to reality and observable functioning perfect order."

grounds for resignation for a science minister ?

Comment cool, but what about sound (Score 3, Interesting) 45

it's cool that I no longer need to drag cables across a room just to use a projector, but it would be even nicer if i could play back any media on my pc and have the images and sound on my tv.. does anyone know if this includes the sound? i owuld expect not as I dont see how it could capture and correclty sync the sound without being part of media framework and that would necessitate a particular playback applicatio. it seems from the article this is application independent. shame as that youtube video and sound redirected from pc to tv would have been cool

Comment get out while you can (Score 1) 709

if you want to become strong, as a start out developer you need to be an environment where you learn from your peers. If you are motivated to learn and produce things it will be difficult if your peers are unproductive and management weak. The risk is that your peers are happy with the status quo and that management are not motivated to improve the engineering dept. You may find yourself getting frustrated as you grow, but your colleagues stay the same. There are some great companies out there who care about engineering, the trick is to identify them when interviewing. Asking questions such as 'how do you guys measure engineering quality' or 'what software lifecycle is predominant' are inoffensive, but tell you important things about how the engineering department operates I've 10 years experience as an engineer now. In your position, I would ask myself question 'what can i learn from my colleagues' and if after 6 or 9 months in a company, the answer is not good then you may have made a mistake joining that company. While job hopping is not good, it may be the best thing to do. Just be careful not to repeat the mnistake,I know some companies that will not hire someone with a history of changing job more frequently than once every two years.

Comment good key distribution & cert issuing/renewal/r (Score 1) 345

I think its pretty innovative, and contributes something positive. A lot of the comments are on the lines of pgp / whatever respected cryptographic tool will do a decent job on signing / encypting / decrypting - we can all agree on this However where we need to evaluate systems is on how easy it is to sign a message, get a key pair, to get the certificate of your correspondent, renew their certificate etc The email proxy server architecture seems a really neat way to handle the cryptographic functions and the client side of certificate management - the central certificate repository seems a good way to distribute certs and handle cert status I dont think there's anything about the system that is fundamentally insecure but I would be interested in the trust relationship between the email client and proxy server is implemented. Also will the centralised repository scale if the system becomes popular? Imagine how many certificate issuing & status requests that thing would need to cope with if it got popular

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